Color

#a6a596

#a6a596
hex#a6a596
rgbrgb(166, 165, 150)
hslhsl(56, 8%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.718 0.021 103.8)
Closest name: Moorland (#a6ab9b)Relative luminance 0.3722

Colors that go with #a6a596

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.

Real palettes that use #a6a596

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9697a6

#a69d96 · #9fa696

#96a6a5 · #a596a6

Split-complementary

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#969fa6 · #9d96a6

#96a69d · #9697a6 · #a6969f

Contrast

#a6a596 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.49:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #767565 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #58574b as the text (7.29:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.21:1)
Aaon black
8.44:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a6a596 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#a6a596 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a6a596
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #a6a596 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a6a596-bdbea2-4e9edf-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md